Entry № 10820 · Sanskrit origin

Tulsi Tulsi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Holy basil (the sacred plant of the goddess Lakshmi)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "holy basil (the sacred plant of the goddess lakshmi)".

Tulsi (तुलसी) is the Sanskrit name for Ocimum tenuiflorum — holy basil, the most sacred plant in Hinduism, considered an earthly form of the goddess Lakshmi (consort of Vishnu). Used in Ayurvedic medicine for over 3,000 years; modern research has shown it has adaptogenic and anti-inflammatory properties. Tulsidas (c. 1532-1623) was the male Sanskrit poet who composed the Ramcharitmanas.

Subject of countless Hindu devotional and Ayurvedic texts.

Holy basil (the sacred plant of the goddess Lakshmi) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

तुलसी
Transliteration
Tulasī
Pronunciation
/ ˈtʊl.siː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tulsi stands.

Tulsi does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Tulsis before her.

Real people
Tulsi Gabbard
American politician.
born 1981
In fiction
Tulsi
Tulsi Vivah festival.

Names connected to Tulsi.

The number behind Tulsi.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tulsi reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.